FAQ #1: Job Board vs. Job Search Engine

Submitted by system on July 31, 2009 - 02:10

FAQ #1:

What is TheGreenJobBank? A job board? No... TheGreenJobBank is not a job board. It's a search engine that indexes web pages, very much like a Google or Yahoo!. The only difference is that TheGreenJobBank indexes only web pages that contain green job postings.

Not being a job board means three important things:

TheGreenJobBank only stores the link to the original green job posting, and a few more data items such as the title, company, location and date posted.

The actual detailed green job posting does not resides on TheGreenJobBank website, but resides on the web site where the job is posted: the employer website, or a job board. When you click on a search result link, your browser is redirected to the original job posting without any modifications.

Of all the green job boards, TheGreenJobBank has the largest number of true green jobs. A number of green job boards obtain their job listings from job aggregators (e.g. Indeed or SimplyHired), but a lot of these jobs are not true green jobs. Their description contains keywords such as "wind" or "solar" or "environment", which does not necessarily mean that they're green jobs.